Livestreaming a Game - possibly
Added 2020-01-12 14:50:29 +0000 UTCSo, at 1500 today I will try, again, to livestream - this time using YouTube which, actually, seems a lot more straightforward than Twitch.
It will still be via my laptop's webcam, so clunky as hell. I don't have the estimated minimum £300 I would need to set up a second camera and webcast it to livestream simultaneously. But, hey, from small acorns and all that.
We'll be playing a simplified variation of the Rescue special mission to keep things clear. It involves three objectives on a 4'x4' table, placed at the centre and at 12"x12" from each of the far corners from my deployment side. The heroes' objective is to reach each objective, pass an interact A(13) test to claim the objective and return to the deployment zone. Successfully claimed objectives cannot be passed to another hero, so once a hero has the objective, if he or she goes down, another hero will have to go back to the objective.
We have three heroes: a Leader, an EWOp and an operator with no specialization but the upgrades to be a nasty sniper (F5, Lethal, Starlight Visor). Note that I have no Doc, so if anyone gets wounded, fixing them will be hard and will use up my limited time.
Starting Red Force is all human, but if I generate reinforcements for them, they might be synthetic.
My plan is to use the EWOp (A5) as primary objective grabber whilst he puts targeted states on the bad guys and support tokens on the good guys. She will be going for two out of three objectives. The Leader will go for the third, unguarded, objective, seeking to draw the enemy bogeys away from the central objective and into the sights of our sniper who will head upwards to a vantage point from which to dominate the area.
Comments
Thanks for the feedback. I'll have a look at how bonus actions are explained in the rules and see if I can make it any clearer. I usually prefer not to explain the tactics of decision-making in my rulebooks because I feel like players working that out for themselves is more fun. But looking at some reviews and comments on Horizon Wars, where people clearly haven't worked out some of the subtleties embedded in the rules, I'm starting to think I need to spell things out in the book itself. What do you think?
Precinct Omega
2020-01-15 13:35:25 +0000 UTCI watched through last night and learned lots of little bits about the rules that hadn't quite registered in my head. Bonus actions are clearer, the tactics of cautious vs normal movement etc. The audio was fine for me, but I wasn't watching live. A couple of points of feedback: 1) A lot of the action with the Sniper and Leader happened when they were hidden behind the large tower on the table. It made it hard to follow. Perhaps a different terrain layout would work better? 2) I tried following along with my rule book in places, but found that I kept forgetting the stats and skills of the heroes. Any chance you could post up a short description of the Heroes/scenario before the live stream starts so people can reference it during the video?
Jonathan Lupton
2020-01-14 19:09:33 +0000 UTCI am shopping for a better microphone as we speak. This was purely with my laptop's built-in microphone and webcam so is going to be a bit patchy in quality (frankly, I'm amazed it was as good as it was!). My next livestream might be a bit better. If anyone has any hardware suggestions, I'm all ears.
Precinct Omega
2020-01-12 19:41:01 +0000 UTCI was noticing during the stream that at the very end the audio was much clearer, but it doesn't look like it's a distance issue because you moved in front of the computer several times and in those moments the audio was always a little robotic. It would seem that the quality improved when you tilted the screen upwards. Have a look yourself at the recording and see if it was only an impression of mine. Good audio is fundamental.
Marco Rinaldi
2020-01-12 18:42:19 +0000 UTC
